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Word: townsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barnett to prevent Meredith's admission to the university without coming into head-on conflict with the Federal Government: he could shut down the university. But the students at Ole Miss, with their futures at stake, wanted it to stay open. So did their parents. So did the townsmen of Oxford, dependent on the university for economic survival. So did many Mississippians who have never seen the university's campus but follow the fortunes of its football team with impassioned pride. And as long as the university remained open to other Mississippians, it remained open, by orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: The Edge of Violence | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Sadly, this summer's brass fanfare may be the last. Scholtes has his enemies, who feel that he has won more glory than is proper for a $220-a-month clerk. When he was invited to Salzburg last year and introduced as "beloved Herr Doktor Scholtes," his fellow townsmen seethed. But if his concours goes, the loss will be Kerkrade's: instead of listening to the pick of the world's brasses, the town will have to settle for relative quiet and its own supply of twelve brass bands, 18 male choirs, nine flute, mandolin and drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brass Fanfare | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married in 1953, and on Hammersmith's spacious lawns that nearly a thousand townsmen, politicos and other out-of-towners swarmed for the reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: By the Bay | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make a suit for the boy. From then on, green is the only color the worshipful Henry will wear, and his schoolmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wilhelm Minor | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Despite the state of siege which puts this city of more than half a million under control of the military, an 8 p.m. curfew was ignored by thousands of rebellious townsmen...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: French Colons Riot in Algeria; Challe Declares State of Siege; De Gaulle Prohibits All Meetings | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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